Sucks for them if they have to limit their Internet perspective to a shitty little phone screen. I’d still rather be the cool dinosaur with my gaming desktops with big screens and mechanical keyboards.
My kids love gaming on the desktop computers too - that’s the Trojan horse (games) that gave me motivation to learn how to use computers in the first place. Gotta learn how to work the computer to get the games to work.
However, you can plug that little crappy phone into a DEX hub with a KB/mouse/monitor and play witcher 3 which is cool.
Not my jam though. I like to actually own my hardware, and be able to repair it. Something phones will never do.
A lot of it was due to how awful windows is, folks gave up trying to work around all the bullshit and said a phone is easier.
I totally feel you. Something to be said for our era where it took work to make games work and that gave me a baseline of computing knowledge. Kids today play on browser or hit download on steam and it works. Which is fine. But they get 0 learning from it. Hence why Young’s are idiots at computers unless parents teach it outright.
Both cloudflare stats and statcounter show desktops with roughly 46% of the marketshare. This is definitely not dead, definitely not an “absolute dinosaurs” thing.
I wonder why people are like that every time a post like this appears. Too much insecurity, perhaps?
Also, somehow, these days, people tend to act like everything below 50% is absolute zero when it comes to tech
Well, I have 4 desktops myself. And I assume other nerds have multiple, so that may skew it.
I’m not trying to downplay it but I am just stating that desktops largely dont matter and won’t matter in 10 years. Show me a 13 year old using a desktop. There aren’t any outside of nerd families.
Both cloudflare stats and statcounter show desktops with roughly 46% of the marketshare. This is definitely not dead, definitely not an “absolute dinosaurs” thing.
That would depend on the average age of a desktop owner. If it’s all us oldies, I think it still qualifies.
No comment on whether it is true or not, I’m not in touch with trends, just saying that you could maybe find similar rates of ownership of disco records in the 80s, for example, but it was definitely dead as a trend by then…
Newsflash: desktops are dead. We are absolute dinosaurs. Most people dont have one. They only use a phone.
Source: mostly every normie I know.
Sucks for them if they have to limit their Internet perspective to a shitty little phone screen. I’d still rather be the cool dinosaur with my gaming desktops with big screens and mechanical keyboards.
My kids love gaming on the desktop computers too - that’s the Trojan horse (games) that gave me motivation to learn how to use computers in the first place. Gotta learn how to work the computer to get the games to work.
Yep I feel the same.
However, you can plug that little crappy phone into a DEX hub with a KB/mouse/monitor and play witcher 3 which is cool.
Not my jam though. I like to actually own my hardware, and be able to repair it. Something phones will never do.
A lot of it was due to how awful windows is, folks gave up trying to work around all the bullshit and said a phone is easier.
I totally feel you. Something to be said for our era where it took work to make games work and that gave me a baseline of computing knowledge. Kids today play on browser or hit download on steam and it works. Which is fine. But they get 0 learning from it. Hence why Young’s are idiots at computers unless parents teach it outright.
Both cloudflare stats and statcounter show desktops with roughly 46% of the marketshare. This is definitely not dead, definitely not an “absolute dinosaurs” thing.
I wonder why people are like that every time a post like this appears. Too much insecurity, perhaps?
Also, somehow, these days, people tend to act like everything below 50% is absolute zero when it comes to tech
Well, I have 4 desktops myself. And I assume other nerds have multiple, so that may skew it.
I’m not trying to downplay it but I am just stating that desktops largely dont matter and won’t matter in 10 years. Show me a 13 year old using a desktop. There aren’t any outside of nerd families.
Statcounter measures pageviews, not users or machines.
That would depend on the average age of a desktop owner. If it’s all us oldies, I think it still qualifies.
No comment on whether it is true or not, I’m not in touch with trends, just saying that you could maybe find similar rates of ownership of disco records in the 80s, for example, but it was definitely dead as a trend by then…
Those people are peasants.